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Chicago examiner wednesday price one cent vol x no 311 a m wednesday Chicago december 18 1912 registered tt u 8 patent office delivered by cirri 30 cents per month gibbet ready for man who starts panic says wilson president-eiect warns wall street that summary ac tion will follow any arti ficial upset of business will put a mark on disturber that will be felt as long as family survives he de clares answering rumors new york dec 17 president-elect wilson served flat notice to wall street to-night at the annual dinner of the south ern society that he will deal summarily witb any man or set of men who under take to upset the business interests of the country by precipitating a panic the president-elect was talking about reports that had reached his ears that bis assump tion of the office of president would dis turb the business of the country and cause a panic a paulc he continued according to the authorities is a condition of the lfflud as a matter of fact there is just as much money the day after as there was the day before there is another kind of panic that is precipitated by unfiieudly interests gibbet promised disturbers lf auy man undertakes to precipitate a panic i promise him a gibbet as high as hainan's i don't moan a literal gibbet because there would be no pain after it were applied but i will put upon him a mark that will be felt as long as there are members of his family surviving governor wilson urged his hearers to forget they ever were partisans declar ing tbat if they did not go away purpos ing to put more force into the best things m the nation they had wasted their even ing time now to take sides i have gore through a campaign m which i have endeavored to speak of things not of persons he said but we speak of persons by implication when we rt v of things and the plainer we mafre the implication the more effective we make the moral men must now stand up nd be counted and put their names down m this side or that and i believe that â€¢â– soon as men see that this is business and not amusement there is going to be enthusiasm for right things which will re mit m this amazing discovery that all honor and integrity and public purpose breathe prosperity more than any other things m the world god knows the poor suffer enough m this country we must move for the emancipation of the poor and that eman cipation will come with our own emanci pation from the error of our mind as to what constitutes prosperity prosperity does not exist for a nation bless it pervades it and the amount of wealth m a nation is much less important than the accessibility of the wealth the more people you make it accessible to the more energy you call forth business panic is m mind they say that business is going to be disturbed by the changes which are going to be undertaken by the democratic party bosiness cannot be disturbed unless the minds of those who conduct it are dis turbed sometimes panics are said lo occur be cause certain gentlemen want to create an impression that the wrong thing is going to be done i am so remote from these things and so innocent that i do not know whether this is true or not hut i oan conceive that it is perfectly possible for the machinery is iv existence by which the thing can be deliberately done personally i do not believe there is â– living man at the present moment wbo would dare use that machinery for that purpose if he does i promise you i will give it my high attention the terror so often spoken of now adays seems to be like greek lire it has been exploded it is a stage product the only cure for that sort of thing is to have one who knows that it is all make believe 5 or millions rich man's legacy to son alonzo thompson denver eccentric makes two wills boy's conduct decides which remains ii force denver col dec 17 alonzo thomp son jr sou of the eccentric oetogenerian _ niulti-iuillionail'e and spiritualist of denver | popularity known as ihe best dressed man m the city on account of his bizarre cos tumes must determine by bis own conduct within the next few years whether he shall receive his father's entire estate valued at millions of dollars or inherit only 5 of that estate his father has made two wills lodged with his attorney one of them bequeathes hi entire estate to his son thc other lenves 5 to the son and otherwise disposes of the remainder of thc estate one of these wills will be destroyed when the elder thompson dies or before which i is ri bestroyod will depend upon the son's conduct if he makes a man of himself he will inherit the entire estate other wise i court bars divorcees fleeing state to wed Illinois supreme tribunal holds marriage v.'ithin year of decree illegal v.herever performed sl ringfibld 111 dec 17 when a person violates the statute prohibiting re marriage within one year after divorce the remarriage is not ugal even jf per formed in another state and one party to the illegal marriage has no claim upon the estate of the ether this opinion was handed down by the supreme ccurt to-day the court says thai m seme states where the remarriage of only the party at fault is prohibited the law his been construed as penal and having no extra territorial effect in illi nois however as m wisconsin uo part of its purpose is te punish a wrongdoer fo it treats the m cent and guilty alike it is held a posit policy of the slate for the protection p lorals and the good order of society against ferious social evils the decision was m the case of robert j wilson administrator of thc estate of mary a cook against robert j cook appealed fiom the probate conrl of madi son couuty cook married mary a moore m st louis three months after he was divorced from a former wife he claimed homestead and dower rights m the wom an's est'.te when she died m madison county where they lived ' japanese scare in canada members of parliament say they hold all strategic points on pacific ottawa dee 17 a full-fledged jap anese war scare was sprung m the house of commons to-night by h 11 stevens n ember for vancouver who m supporting the borden naval policy of contributing 35,000,000 to england immediately for dreadnoughts declared that lhe japanese were already iv possession of all the strat egic points of the pacific and had driven out the canadian and english fishermen from the british columbia coast the japanese consul general mr nakamura and other prominent japanese visiting the capital are said to be indignant at mr stevens speech liberals say to-night tliey will oppose the granting of supplies and thereby force the government to appeal to the country probably next summer bailey scorns memorials no more honor m them than m being senator he declares washington dec 17 joseph weldon bailey retiring senator from texas to day delivered another of his lectures to the united states senate the senate bad passed a bill appropriating 5,000 for a statue of pocahontas spoken of m the committee's report as an american indian princess mr bailey opposed the grow ing american sentiment which seeks to respect the memory of those who are wor thy through lhe erection of proper me morials if we continue to erect monuments m this fashion he said there will ue no more honor m a memorial of this kind within a few years than there is m being a member of the united states senate in billion dollar debut st louis mo dec 17 about thirty out-of-town guests arrived m st louis to day for lob campbell's billion-dollar coming out parties the wealth repre sented at the function totals about that amount friends think miss campbell's debut will cost 10,000 the sum said to have been spent at the recent debut of i miss marie buseh granddaughter of adol i phus buseh miss campbell sole heir to ; james campbell's t!(.),0(x),000 made her i ln>w io society in her father's home to i niirht the reception will be followed by | a dinner and dance at the st louis club i to-morrow night fined for moose button 10i.iet 111 dec 17 because john i'ulsinick wore a bull moose button when he whs arraigned before judge j l me inlloch charged with disorder the judge a stanch republican fined him fs five and costs for wearing that button were the words of the judge when his eyes lit upon the emblem of the progressive party flynn succeeds wilkie washin't ton dec 17 - william j | flynn of new york to-day was appointed j chief of the onited states secret sendee 'â– by secretary maevengb to succeed john i e wllkle now chief supervising agent or the customs service i 00ct0rs in fist fight at session of county board passing of lie brings encoun ter between r g schroth and m l harris seek nursing contract women rush for safety and meeting breaks up as po lice are summoned ' a fist fight over a 100,000 contract put an abrupt finish yesterday to the warmest session that the county board has held for many months dr r g schroth im pugned the veracity of dr m l harris and four seconds later there were calls for the police no man can call me a liar shouted dr harris take that and th â€” language was lost m action harris struck a wow ' schroth plunged to the encounter a dozen women who had been attending the meeting some of them taking part m the debate sought safety m the far corners of the room a dozen men rushed to separate the combatants the scuffle was lively for a few seconds and then the calmest man m the crowd shouted police police and the meeting was adjourned nursing contract at stake the nursing contract for the county hos pital was at stake dr schroth wanted the contract awarded on a basis of com petitive bills he is vice president of the Illinois post-graduate and training school for nurses this organization submitted the lowest bid 597.000 for the yearly contract the bbl was made last month then the new board threw out all the bids and started an investigation of the county hos pital nurse problem dr harris wanted the contract awarded to the Illinois training school for nurses â€” which is not tho same organization as the Illinois post-graduate and training school 1 want tn tell you that the post-grad uate and training school is a branch of the nursing trust declared dr harris the importance of this nursing question cannot be overestimated i would rather have a good nurse than a poor doctor makes charge against school instantly dr john dill robertson was on bis feet he ls president of the jef ferson park hospital and head of the loyola medical college dr harris has opened the gates of discussion and i want to say something about the Illinois training school he said there is a prescription cabinet m each ward containing all kinds of poisons and these nurses girls from the country many of them â€” fill prescriptions from them it's against the law of Illinois that's all i want to say mrs ira conch wood president of the board of directors of the institution at tacked was struggling to be heard will you let a woman talk she crrfed there's no stopping them called some body m a remote corner and mrs wood gained atteution as the laugh subsided woman replies to attack dr robertson is misinformed she said about county hospital management he doesn't know what he is talking about dr clara p seippel assistant city phy sician sided with mrs wood it is true there are poisons m thc pre scription cases she admitted but when the nurses fll proscriptions tliey are al ways carefully watched there is no chance of a mistake all the other hos pitals m the city have the same system dr robertson renewed the attack the reason nurses are scarce m illi nois he declared is necause the Illinois tiainiug school headed a movement to re quire a three years training course they to think tbat nursing is a profession i say it's nothing but housekeeping for the sick except surgical nursing al talk but no one listens others tried to talk but nobody would listen peter bartzen got a laugh out of the tumult by shouting that he knew a physician who got 10,000 a year from the Chicago railways company he was referring to harris and harris was mak ing for thc door with schroth at his heels your statements are going to hurt you with the medical profession said dr schroth protestingly i don't care l said what i meant re torted harris in the battle tbat followed there was apparent reason to fear that some sur geons nurses ambulances hospitals clergymen and undertakers might be need ed forthwith but when it was over neither physician needed the professioual services of the other 7 hurt is train speeds into auto betrothal party mistake m flag signal sends engine and car crash ing together bride-to-be injured girl's fiance her father and mother also m wreck / i misunderstanding of the signals given by a flagman caused injury to seven per sons wheu the automobile m which six of them were riding was wrecked by a Chicago & northwestern railroad freight engine at north canal and west kinzie streets late last night the seventh victim of the accident the conductor of the freight train was crushed while riding on the front of the engine five of the injured were taken to st luke's hospital by the police ambulance from the desplaines stret station seven injured those injured were j a binard 3611 sheffield avenue de partment manager of butler brothers wholesale merchandise owner of the anto mohile right leg severed below the knee and left leg injured mrs j a binard lis wife probably in ternally hurt and bruised about the body miss irene binard daughter cut on the face and arms by glass and back of her head bruised t f luning 1459 cullom avenue fiance of miss binard bruised about the body b waldberg 2215 sj-.effield avenue a buyer employed by butler brothers cut by glass on face and bands gustave cline 2046 cortez street switch man on front of engine right leg broken and bruised charles silver 3321 jackson boulevard conductor of the freight train left leg cut off may postpone wedding liming who was driving the automobile at the time it was wrecked said he had been given a signal to go ahead by joseph bolinskl the flagman apparently the crew of the engine thought this was meant for them and both the locomotive and the automobile were started at the same tune bollnski disappeared after the accident and is being sought by the police the accident may make necessary a post ponement of the marriage of liming and miss binard it having been the inten tion of the former to present his fiancee with an engagement ring last night when they arrived at the binard home the party left the butler brothers build ing at 10 o'clock be careful we don't want to spoil our christmas by an accident cautioned miss binard ln a joking way as the machine approached the crossing said to be unpro tected by gates blames engine crefw silver was caught between the machine and the engine he and binard were thrown under the engine the others in the automobile were thrown out and cut by broken glass from the wind shield of the machine mrs binard and her daugh ter were tinder part of the wrecked ma chine on the rails and were rescued by liming who was but slightly hurt oh mamma this will be au awful christmas for us cried miss binard as she was lifted out from under the debris she became hysterical when she learned that her father had beeu seriously hurt mrs binard was unconscious when taken from the wreckage but revived in a short time lc.ning when questioned by the police placed the blame on the crew of the loco motive for the accident alleging that they pvoltably misunderstood the signal given to him to go ahead and thought it was intended for them bride-to-be and her wreck hero miss helen m oould her fiance fin ley j shepard and miss gould's sum mer home lyndtiurst wreck won miss gould fiance ran to rescue she loved his heroism carpenter named for cihcuit bench i cutting is also nominated j by Taft for district ; judgeship 1 judge george a carpenter of the united states district court was nominated for judge of the united states circuit court i of appeals and judge charles s cutting â– of the probate court for judge of the ! united states district court by president i Taft yesterday afternoon whether the senate will confirm or not is another mat ter that body has thus far held up all the president's appointments since the " short session of , congress was convened i as it is put m political circles governor ' deneen was hit again by the appointment of judge cutting he made a personal plea for the appointment of his old fsiena axel chytraus to the district bench sen ! ator cullom who recommended lewis ma [ son was also disregarded uoy o west : national committeeman for Illinois made - a special trip to washington to boosi '_ chytraus judge cutting has been recommended by all sorts of politicians for the last two years he was the leading rival of judge carpenter when he was appointed two years ago and the president dug up these old recommendations and acted upon them iv preference to lbe new ones ostensibly judge carpenter is appointed to the vacancy caused by the resignation of judge orosscup from the circuit bench â– but lawyers doubt whether there is such a vacancy as the office of judge of the circuit court has been abolished the in tention has beeu for congress specifically . to abolish the grosscupjkilace and create ti nf tu-ti-i,.t iihlmuffiti for Chicago romance ripened m night when shepard played part m disaster st louis mo dec 17 the betrothal of finley j shepard nnd miss helen gould was fostered by the wreck of a train on which both were traveling it was learned here to-day the wreck occurred on the west shore of the new york central near rochester x v october 10 1912 when the train was running sixty-seven miles an hour miss gould and shepard had for a long time been interested m the same affairs and m many ways their tastes were ln harmony both were interested deeply ln the y m c ai work and it had been mr shepard's privilege to attend to many little com missions for miss gould tending to ad vance the work of the railroad branches she noted his unobtrusive earnestness his clear reasoning his thoughtlessness of self his quickness of perception his manly bearing and his high character and from this close association he had come to know miss gould first thought for women mr shepard escorted miss gould to chi cago whither she was going with a party of i her friends to attend a convention of the railroad y m c a shepard's first thought when the wreck occurred was for tbelr women through the darkness he pushed his way to the front part of the car and rapped on the stateroom door and asked if miss gould or auy of her party were injured miss gould answered xo he then went to the aid of those m the other patts of the train he clambered out of the darkened car and ran through the soft mud to tlie engine this had left the track and ths fireman was crnwling w r hearst tells about the standard oil letters before senate committee in vestigating campaign con tributions he produces foup new ones m addition to those already printed received copies from john eddy m 1908 never doubted authenticity be cause author and receivers of letters admitted it _, i am anxious to bring out all ? t the facts m connection with these ) ) letters but i am not anxious to \ ) contribute any information to < _> satisfy the curiosity of mr arch i \ bold mÃŸ hearst > i i ashtngton dec 17 william i i randolph hearst to-day told iaj the clapp investigating com â€¢" mittee all he knew of the famous standard oil letters first made public by him m his speeches m the campaign of 1908 and after ward published more fully m hearst's magazine of this year mr hearst produced all the unpub lished letters that came within the 6cope of the senate resolution direct ing the committee which is a sub committee of the committee on priri leges and elections to investigate the matter of campaign expenditures he brought with him the published let ters but these with one exception he was not asked to produce although differing with the com mittee as to its authority to call for letters not included m the resolution he agreed to produce these later they will be examined m executive session and if not found pertinent to the in quiry will not be made public story of letters told mr bearst asked to tell where he got the letters said that he was given photo graphic copies of them by john eddy who wrote the first standard oil articles for hearst's magazine eddy ne said brought them to him m columbus 0 where mr hearst was atout to make a speech m ad vocacy of a new party convinced of their authenticity be made nse of them m tis speech and they were not disputed either by their recipients or john d arch bold the author of most of them chairman clapp senator oliver ard sen ator pomerene asted mr hearst many questions witb lbe purpose of learning how the letters originally came from the files of the standard oil company this was a subject on which mr arcbhold exhibited great curiosity when he testified before the committee mr her.rst said that he knew nothing of the letters beyond the fact that copies of them had been placed m his hands by mr eddy the questioning on this point occupied most of the honr or more that was spent m the examination of mr hearst in fact the senators appeared more eager to learn how the letters had been obtained than to secrre any other information mr hearst had to give them incidental to the examination the wit ness was asked if he knew of any cam paign contj-ibotions he replied that he knew only of a contribution of 10,000 or 12,000 he had made to the independence league campaign fund m 1908 attempt to shield penrose senator oliver who safeguarded the in terests of senator penrose as far as possi ble when that gentleman was before the committee in commenting on a telegram to arcbbold bearing penrose's signature observed that the name boies was not spelled as penrose spelled it he added that tbis might be because it was a tele gram mr oliver said the telegram was dated m philadelphia m december and that penrose must have been m washing ton at that time the telegram however showed no definite date the pennsylvania senator also inquired diligently concerning a loan mentioned m one of the letters ts having been made to foraker he wanted to know if mr hearot knew foraker had paid this money back mr hearst taid he understood this was the ease and had given the ohio senator credit for paying lt back senator clapi the chairman asked mi hearst it be laew anything about un continued on 4th pago 3d column | day thursday fair moder ate to brisk northwest winds l_jj range of temperature yester s v . highest - 44 r>4r3cx lowest .. 37 ' '^ j v average .. â€” ....,.. ... 40.5 i i the figures of circulation contained m the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers *Â«. mmoo whitehall bldg n y city don't miss the musical climax j of the year at orchestra hall next sunday afternoon mme ernestine sehumann-hoiifk mme carolina white mr mario sammarco me icilio calleja mr bruno steindel mr leon saraetini all these famous artists have donated their services m order that thousands of chicago's poor children may have a real christ mas this year the entire pro i ceods of the concert will go to the Chicago examiner christmas fund \ seats on sale to-day at | orchestra hall box office i â– â€ž, save time and money by putting your ad m the want ad columns of the examiner they are depend able â€” thousands look to them every day for definite infor mation â€” and they are quick m action ph**ie main 5000 i j

Chicago examiner wednesday price one cent vol x no 311 a m wednesday Chicago december 18 1912 registered tt u 8 patent office delivered by cirri 30 cents per month gibbet ready for man who starts panic says wilson president-eiect warns wall street that summary ac tion will follow any arti ficial upset of business will put a mark on disturber that will be felt as long as family survives he de clares answering rumors new york dec 17 president-elect wilson served flat notice to wall street to-night at the annual dinner of the south ern society that he will deal summarily witb any man or set of men who under take to upset the business interests of the country by precipitating a panic the president-elect was talking about reports that had reached his ears that bis assump tion of the office of president would dis turb the business of the country and cause a panic a paulc he continued according to the authorities is a condition of the lfflud as a matter of fact there is just as much money the day after as there was the day before there is another kind of panic that is precipitated by unfiieudly interests gibbet promised disturbers lf auy man undertakes to precipitate a panic i promise him a gibbet as high as hainan's i don't moan a literal gibbet because there would be no pain after it were applied but i will put upon him a mark that will be felt as long as there are members of his family surviving governor wilson urged his hearers to forget they ever were partisans declar ing tbat if they did not go away purpos ing to put more force into the best things m the nation they had wasted their even ing time now to take sides i have gore through a campaign m which i have endeavored to speak of things not of persons he said but we speak of persons by implication when we rt v of things and the plainer we mafre the implication the more effective we make the moral men must now stand up nd be counted and put their names down m this side or that and i believe that â€¢â– soon as men see that this is business and not amusement there is going to be enthusiasm for right things which will re mit m this amazing discovery that all honor and integrity and public purpose breathe prosperity more than any other things m the world god knows the poor suffer enough m this country we must move for the emancipation of the poor and that eman cipation will come with our own emanci pation from the error of our mind as to what constitutes prosperity prosperity does not exist for a nation bless it pervades it and the amount of wealth m a nation is much less important than the accessibility of the wealth the more people you make it accessible to the more energy you call forth business panic is m mind they say that business is going to be disturbed by the changes which are going to be undertaken by the democratic party bosiness cannot be disturbed unless the minds of those who conduct it are dis turbed sometimes panics are said lo occur be cause certain gentlemen want to create an impression that the wrong thing is going to be done i am so remote from these things and so innocent that i do not know whether this is true or not hut i oan conceive that it is perfectly possible for the machinery is iv existence by which the thing can be deliberately done personally i do not believe there is â– living man at the present moment wbo would dare use that machinery for that purpose if he does i promise you i will give it my high attention the terror so often spoken of now adays seems to be like greek lire it has been exploded it is a stage product the only cure for that sort of thing is to have one who knows that it is all make believe 5 or millions rich man's legacy to son alonzo thompson denver eccentric makes two wills boy's conduct decides which remains ii force denver col dec 17 alonzo thomp son jr sou of the eccentric oetogenerian _ niulti-iuillionail'e and spiritualist of denver | popularity known as ihe best dressed man m the city on account of his bizarre cos tumes must determine by bis own conduct within the next few years whether he shall receive his father's entire estate valued at millions of dollars or inherit only 5 of that estate his father has made two wills lodged with his attorney one of them bequeathes hi entire estate to his son thc other lenves 5 to the son and otherwise disposes of the remainder of thc estate one of these wills will be destroyed when the elder thompson dies or before which i is ri bestroyod will depend upon the son's conduct if he makes a man of himself he will inherit the entire estate other wise i court bars divorcees fleeing state to wed Illinois supreme tribunal holds marriage v.'ithin year of decree illegal v.herever performed sl ringfibld 111 dec 17 when a person violates the statute prohibiting re marriage within one year after divorce the remarriage is not ugal even jf per formed in another state and one party to the illegal marriage has no claim upon the estate of the ether this opinion was handed down by the supreme ccurt to-day the court says thai m seme states where the remarriage of only the party at fault is prohibited the law his been construed as penal and having no extra territorial effect in illi nois however as m wisconsin uo part of its purpose is te punish a wrongdoer fo it treats the m cent and guilty alike it is held a posit policy of the slate for the protection p lorals and the good order of society against ferious social evils the decision was m the case of robert j wilson administrator of thc estate of mary a cook against robert j cook appealed fiom the probate conrl of madi son couuty cook married mary a moore m st louis three months after he was divorced from a former wife he claimed homestead and dower rights m the wom an's est'.te when she died m madison county where they lived ' japanese scare in canada members of parliament say they hold all strategic points on pacific ottawa dee 17 a full-fledged jap anese war scare was sprung m the house of commons to-night by h 11 stevens n ember for vancouver who m supporting the borden naval policy of contributing 35,000,000 to england immediately for dreadnoughts declared that lhe japanese were already iv possession of all the strat egic points of the pacific and had driven out the canadian and english fishermen from the british columbia coast the japanese consul general mr nakamura and other prominent japanese visiting the capital are said to be indignant at mr stevens speech liberals say to-night tliey will oppose the granting of supplies and thereby force the government to appeal to the country probably next summer bailey scorns memorials no more honor m them than m being senator he declares washington dec 17 joseph weldon bailey retiring senator from texas to day delivered another of his lectures to the united states senate the senate bad passed a bill appropriating 5,000 for a statue of pocahontas spoken of m the committee's report as an american indian princess mr bailey opposed the grow ing american sentiment which seeks to respect the memory of those who are wor thy through lhe erection of proper me morials if we continue to erect monuments m this fashion he said there will ue no more honor m a memorial of this kind within a few years than there is m being a member of the united states senate in billion dollar debut st louis mo dec 17 about thirty out-of-town guests arrived m st louis to day for lob campbell's billion-dollar coming out parties the wealth repre sented at the function totals about that amount friends think miss campbell's debut will cost 10,000 the sum said to have been spent at the recent debut of i miss marie buseh granddaughter of adol i phus buseh miss campbell sole heir to ; james campbell's t!(.),0(x),000 made her i ln>w io society in her father's home to i niirht the reception will be followed by | a dinner and dance at the st louis club i to-morrow night fined for moose button 10i.iet 111 dec 17 because john i'ulsinick wore a bull moose button when he whs arraigned before judge j l me inlloch charged with disorder the judge a stanch republican fined him fs five and costs for wearing that button were the words of the judge when his eyes lit upon the emblem of the progressive party flynn succeeds wilkie washin't ton dec 17 - william j | flynn of new york to-day was appointed j chief of the onited states secret sendee 'â– by secretary maevengb to succeed john i e wllkle now chief supervising agent or the customs service i 00ct0rs in fist fight at session of county board passing of lie brings encoun ter between r g schroth and m l harris seek nursing contract women rush for safety and meeting breaks up as po lice are summoned ' a fist fight over a 100,000 contract put an abrupt finish yesterday to the warmest session that the county board has held for many months dr r g schroth im pugned the veracity of dr m l harris and four seconds later there were calls for the police no man can call me a liar shouted dr harris take that and th â€” language was lost m action harris struck a wow ' schroth plunged to the encounter a dozen women who had been attending the meeting some of them taking part m the debate sought safety m the far corners of the room a dozen men rushed to separate the combatants the scuffle was lively for a few seconds and then the calmest man m the crowd shouted police police and the meeting was adjourned nursing contract at stake the nursing contract for the county hos pital was at stake dr schroth wanted the contract awarded on a basis of com petitive bills he is vice president of the Illinois post-graduate and training school for nurses this organization submitted the lowest bid 597.000 for the yearly contract the bbl was made last month then the new board threw out all the bids and started an investigation of the county hos pital nurse problem dr harris wanted the contract awarded to the Illinois training school for nurses â€” which is not tho same organization as the Illinois post-graduate and training school 1 want tn tell you that the post-grad uate and training school is a branch of the nursing trust declared dr harris the importance of this nursing question cannot be overestimated i would rather have a good nurse than a poor doctor makes charge against school instantly dr john dill robertson was on bis feet he ls president of the jef ferson park hospital and head of the loyola medical college dr harris has opened the gates of discussion and i want to say something about the Illinois training school he said there is a prescription cabinet m each ward containing all kinds of poisons and these nurses girls from the country many of them â€” fill prescriptions from them it's against the law of Illinois that's all i want to say mrs ira conch wood president of the board of directors of the institution at tacked was struggling to be heard will you let a woman talk she crrfed there's no stopping them called some body m a remote corner and mrs wood gained atteution as the laugh subsided woman replies to attack dr robertson is misinformed she said about county hospital management he doesn't know what he is talking about dr clara p seippel assistant city phy sician sided with mrs wood it is true there are poisons m thc pre scription cases she admitted but when the nurses fll proscriptions tliey are al ways carefully watched there is no chance of a mistake all the other hos pitals m the city have the same system dr robertson renewed the attack the reason nurses are scarce m illi nois he declared is necause the Illinois tiainiug school headed a movement to re quire a three years training course they to think tbat nursing is a profession i say it's nothing but housekeeping for the sick except surgical nursing al talk but no one listens others tried to talk but nobody would listen peter bartzen got a laugh out of the tumult by shouting that he knew a physician who got 10,000 a year from the Chicago railways company he was referring to harris and harris was mak ing for thc door with schroth at his heels your statements are going to hurt you with the medical profession said dr schroth protestingly i don't care l said what i meant re torted harris in the battle tbat followed there was apparent reason to fear that some sur geons nurses ambulances hospitals clergymen and undertakers might be need ed forthwith but when it was over neither physician needed the professioual services of the other 7 hurt is train speeds into auto betrothal party mistake m flag signal sends engine and car crash ing together bride-to-be injured girl's fiance her father and mother also m wreck / i misunderstanding of the signals given by a flagman caused injury to seven per sons wheu the automobile m which six of them were riding was wrecked by a Chicago & northwestern railroad freight engine at north canal and west kinzie streets late last night the seventh victim of the accident the conductor of the freight train was crushed while riding on the front of the engine five of the injured were taken to st luke's hospital by the police ambulance from the desplaines stret station seven injured those injured were j a binard 3611 sheffield avenue de partment manager of butler brothers wholesale merchandise owner of the anto mohile right leg severed below the knee and left leg injured mrs j a binard lis wife probably in ternally hurt and bruised about the body miss irene binard daughter cut on the face and arms by glass and back of her head bruised t f luning 1459 cullom avenue fiance of miss binard bruised about the body b waldberg 2215 sj-.effield avenue a buyer employed by butler brothers cut by glass on face and bands gustave cline 2046 cortez street switch man on front of engine right leg broken and bruised charles silver 3321 jackson boulevard conductor of the freight train left leg cut off may postpone wedding liming who was driving the automobile at the time it was wrecked said he had been given a signal to go ahead by joseph bolinskl the flagman apparently the crew of the engine thought this was meant for them and both the locomotive and the automobile were started at the same tune bollnski disappeared after the accident and is being sought by the police the accident may make necessary a post ponement of the marriage of liming and miss binard it having been the inten tion of the former to present his fiancee with an engagement ring last night when they arrived at the binard home the party left the butler brothers build ing at 10 o'clock be careful we don't want to spoil our christmas by an accident cautioned miss binard ln a joking way as the machine approached the crossing said to be unpro tected by gates blames engine crefw silver was caught between the machine and the engine he and binard were thrown under the engine the others in the automobile were thrown out and cut by broken glass from the wind shield of the machine mrs binard and her daugh ter were tinder part of the wrecked ma chine on the rails and were rescued by liming who was but slightly hurt oh mamma this will be au awful christmas for us cried miss binard as she was lifted out from under the debris she became hysterical when she learned that her father had beeu seriously hurt mrs binard was unconscious when taken from the wreckage but revived in a short time lc.ning when questioned by the police placed the blame on the crew of the loco motive for the accident alleging that they pvoltably misunderstood the signal given to him to go ahead and thought it was intended for them bride-to-be and her wreck hero miss helen m oould her fiance fin ley j shepard and miss gould's sum mer home lyndtiurst wreck won miss gould fiance ran to rescue she loved his heroism carpenter named for cihcuit bench i cutting is also nominated j by Taft for district ; judgeship 1 judge george a carpenter of the united states district court was nominated for judge of the united states circuit court i of appeals and judge charles s cutting â– of the probate court for judge of the ! united states district court by president i Taft yesterday afternoon whether the senate will confirm or not is another mat ter that body has thus far held up all the president's appointments since the " short session of , congress was convened i as it is put m political circles governor ' deneen was hit again by the appointment of judge cutting he made a personal plea for the appointment of his old fsiena axel chytraus to the district bench sen ! ator cullom who recommended lewis ma [ son was also disregarded uoy o west : national committeeman for Illinois made - a special trip to washington to boosi '_ chytraus judge cutting has been recommended by all sorts of politicians for the last two years he was the leading rival of judge carpenter when he was appointed two years ago and the president dug up these old recommendations and acted upon them iv preference to lbe new ones ostensibly judge carpenter is appointed to the vacancy caused by the resignation of judge orosscup from the circuit bench â– but lawyers doubt whether there is such a vacancy as the office of judge of the circuit court has been abolished the in tention has beeu for congress specifically . to abolish the grosscupjkilace and create ti nf tu-ti-i,.t iihlmuffiti for Chicago romance ripened m night when shepard played part m disaster st louis mo dec 17 the betrothal of finley j shepard nnd miss helen gould was fostered by the wreck of a train on which both were traveling it was learned here to-day the wreck occurred on the west shore of the new york central near rochester x v october 10 1912 when the train was running sixty-seven miles an hour miss gould and shepard had for a long time been interested m the same affairs and m many ways their tastes were ln harmony both were interested deeply ln the y m c ai work and it had been mr shepard's privilege to attend to many little com missions for miss gould tending to ad vance the work of the railroad branches she noted his unobtrusive earnestness his clear reasoning his thoughtlessness of self his quickness of perception his manly bearing and his high character and from this close association he had come to know miss gould first thought for women mr shepard escorted miss gould to chi cago whither she was going with a party of i her friends to attend a convention of the railroad y m c a shepard's first thought when the wreck occurred was for tbelr women through the darkness he pushed his way to the front part of the car and rapped on the stateroom door and asked if miss gould or auy of her party were injured miss gould answered xo he then went to the aid of those m the other patts of the train he clambered out of the darkened car and ran through the soft mud to tlie engine this had left the track and ths fireman was crnwling w r hearst tells about the standard oil letters before senate committee in vestigating campaign con tributions he produces foup new ones m addition to those already printed received copies from john eddy m 1908 never doubted authenticity be cause author and receivers of letters admitted it _, i am anxious to bring out all ? t the facts m connection with these ) ) letters but i am not anxious to \ ) contribute any information to < _> satisfy the curiosity of mr arch i \ bold mÃŸ hearst > i i ashtngton dec 17 william i i randolph hearst to-day told iaj the clapp investigating com â€¢" mittee all he knew of the famous standard oil letters first made public by him m his speeches m the campaign of 1908 and after ward published more fully m hearst's magazine of this year mr hearst produced all the unpub lished letters that came within the 6cope of the senate resolution direct ing the committee which is a sub committee of the committee on priri leges and elections to investigate the matter of campaign expenditures he brought with him the published let ters but these with one exception he was not asked to produce although differing with the com mittee as to its authority to call for letters not included m the resolution he agreed to produce these later they will be examined m executive session and if not found pertinent to the in quiry will not be made public story of letters told mr bearst asked to tell where he got the letters said that he was given photo graphic copies of them by john eddy who wrote the first standard oil articles for hearst's magazine eddy ne said brought them to him m columbus 0 where mr hearst was atout to make a speech m ad vocacy of a new party convinced of their authenticity be made nse of them m tis speech and they were not disputed either by their recipients or john d arch bold the author of most of them chairman clapp senator oliver ard sen ator pomerene asted mr hearst many questions witb lbe purpose of learning how the letters originally came from the files of the standard oil company this was a subject on which mr arcbhold exhibited great curiosity when he testified before the committee mr her.rst said that he knew nothing of the letters beyond the fact that copies of them had been placed m his hands by mr eddy the questioning on this point occupied most of the honr or more that was spent m the examination of mr hearst in fact the senators appeared more eager to learn how the letters had been obtained than to secrre any other information mr hearst had to give them incidental to the examination the wit ness was asked if he knew of any cam paign contj-ibotions he replied that he knew only of a contribution of 10,000 or 12,000 he had made to the independence league campaign fund m 1908 attempt to shield penrose senator oliver who safeguarded the in terests of senator penrose as far as possi ble when that gentleman was before the committee in commenting on a telegram to arcbbold bearing penrose's signature observed that the name boies was not spelled as penrose spelled it he added that tbis might be because it was a tele gram mr oliver said the telegram was dated m philadelphia m december and that penrose must have been m washing ton at that time the telegram however showed no definite date the pennsylvania senator also inquired diligently concerning a loan mentioned m one of the letters ts having been made to foraker he wanted to know if mr hearot knew foraker had paid this money back mr hearst taid he understood this was the ease and had given the ohio senator credit for paying lt back senator clapi the chairman asked mi hearst it be laew anything about un continued on 4th pago 3d column | day thursday fair moder ate to brisk northwest winds l_jj range of temperature yester s v . highest - 44 r>4r3cx lowest .. 37 ' '^ j v average .. â€” ....,.. ... 40.5 i i the figures of circulation contained m the association's report only are guaranteed association of american advertisers *Â«. mmoo whitehall bldg n y city don't miss the musical climax j of the year at orchestra hall next sunday afternoon mme ernestine sehumann-hoiifk mme carolina white mr mario sammarco me icilio calleja mr 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